Heidi McKenzie is a Toronto-based ceramic artist. Heidi completed her MFA at OCADU in 2014. In 2022, Heidi was a finalist and exhibitor for the Shantz Award, Canada’s national ceramics emerging artist award, and received the Fusion Clay & Glass Award of Achievement. In 2021, Heidi was juried Best in Show at the Gardiner Museum exhibition, Flux, the Toronto Potters Biennale. Heidi has exhibited nationally and internationally, in Europe, Scandinavia, Southeast Asia, and the US, including the Toronto International Art Fair. The recipient of numerous grants, Heidi has created in Denmark, Hungary, Australia, China and Indonesia. Heidi uses photography, digital media, and archive to forefront themes of ancestry, race, migration and colonization. Heidi curated and exhibited ‘Decolonizing Clay’ at the Australian Ceramics Triennale in 2019, and participated in the World Indian Diaspora Congress in Trinidad, 2020. Heidi was recently inducted into, the International Academy of Ceramics, Geneva, Switzerland (fall 2022).